According to LEDinside, a research division of TrendForce, retail prices for LED bulbs worldwide continue to have a downward trend this year for April. Worldwide retail price for 40W equiv. LED bulbs dropped by 5.7%, reaching 16.1 USD. ...
Edmonton, Canada - Edmonton could save $50 million over two decades by speeding up the conversion of street lights to LED fixtures from conventional equipment, a new report says. The city began a 20-year program in 2011 to install LED ...
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A contentious controversy surrounds the high intensity of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) LEDs, with experts split on whether or not indium-rich clusters within the material provide their remarkable efficiency. Now, researchers from the ...
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Kim Kisslinger, seen here with a focused-ion beam instrument, reduced the InGaN samples to a thickness of just 20 nanometers to prepare them for electron microscopy. From the high-resolution glow of flat screen televisions to light bulbs ...
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Driven by the mainstream power rating of LED light bulbs rising from 8W currently to 10-12W, demand for LED lighting in Taiwan is expected to take off in second-half 2013, with sales reaching 10 million bulbs for full-year 2013, according ...
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DIXON, CALIFORNIA, - City planners want Dixon residents to share their thoughts and opinions of which LED streetlights they like best. At first glance, most people wouldn't notice the streetlights until they saw the sign on the pole ...
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Kerala, India, The Energy Management Centre (EMC) is in the process of framing a street light policy, which, if implemented in the state, can save 24 million kwh of electricity every year. The policy will stress the need to use LED bulbs, ...
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Global revenues for LED driver ICs used in general lighting applications will more than triple from 2012 to 2015, as the market for solid-state illumination booms, according to IMS Research. The market governing LED driver ICs for ...
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Trinidad, Las Animas County, Colorado, When the ballasts in the existing fluorescent light fixtures in the gymnasium at Trinidad’s community center began failing in recent months, causing the lights to go out one-by-one, Marty ...
LED bulbs by an innovative manufacturer of high-quality moving lights, Robe, were responsible for the lighting for the Miss Universe Slovak Republic 2013 contest which took place last month at the Aegon Arena National Tennis Centre in ...
Electricity bills are one of those expenditures which we cannot avoid. Therefore, it is imperative during these financially challenging times that people are doing as much as possible to keep the cost of bills down so they have more money ...
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Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada - The city of Yellowknife is speeding up its efforts to install more cost effective, energy efficient LED bulbs in street lights. to date the city and its partners Northland Utilities have swapped ...
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April 2013 prices of 40W and 60W retrofit LED light bulbs in Japan were JPY1743/unit and JPY2357/unit, respectively, showing an on-month decrease of 4% and 12.5%. April prices of 40W retrofit LED light bulbs in South Korea showed an ...
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Saint Lucia Saint Lucia has begun a pilot project aimed at replacing the country’s street lights with LED bulbs. The government said it was part of an effort to reduce its utility bills, which reach around $7 million for street ...
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Street lights in front of Castlegate in Aberdeen, Scotland. Every street light in Scotland could be fitted with low-energy LED bulbs as part of ambitious plans to cut CO2 emissions, ministers said on Thursday. The Scottish government ...
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